Airplanes, cats, guns, war, the more than occasional rant about the kleptocracy of President Stable Genius and his party of treason, the spinelessness of the Democraps and ramblings about anything else that flits through the somewhat offbeat mind of an armed lesbian pinko as she slides down the Razor Blade of Life.Caveat lector.

Words of Advice:

"Never Feel Sorry For Anyone Who Owns an Airplane."-- Tina Marie

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

"Flying the Airplane is More Important than Radioing Your Plight to a Person on the GroundWho is Incapable of Understanding or Doing Anything About It." -- Unknown

"There seems to be almost no problem that Congress cannot, by diligent efforts and careful legislative drafting, make ten times worse." -- Me

Friday, January 27, 2017

Mannix is Gone

In its way, the show was a bit of a pioneer. It was the first show to give a black woman, Gail Fisher, a starring role (who went on to be the first black woman to win an Emmy).

For my money, there hasn't been a P.I. on the tube who has been cooler than Mannix. Mannix took a lot of punishment, being one of the few TV detectives to routinely get the shit beaten out of him. Some of it was real, for Connors dislocated his shoulder and broke his wrist while filming the pilot. Mannix drove a Dodge Dart, a car that somebody who worked hard for a buck might have driven.

This had a 340 LA V8, not a slant six, Doug. The 340 was basically a punched-out 318 with a forged steel crankshaft rather than the normal cast nodular iron unit and forged pushrods, connecting rods, and pistons, topped by a 4-barrel carburetor and a hot cam. Good engine, but it was a high compression high performance engine so you wouldn't expect the durability of a slant six, which was ridiculously understressed. Chrysler eventually cancelled the engine after emission controls took their toll, the 360 took its place in most applications though the 360 wasn't exactly a high performance engine.

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Violation of this term is a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2)(C) and you're off to share a cell with Chris Christie, asswipe.

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